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CHANGE OF INTEGRITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of changing the unity or wholeness of something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("change of integrity" is a kind of...):
change (the action of changing something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "change of integrity"):
connection; connexion; joining (the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication))
break; breakage; breaking (the act of breaking something)
burst; explosion (the act of exploding or bursting)
burning; combustion (the act of burning something)
combination; combining; compounding (the act of combining things to form a new whole)
opening (becoming open or being made open)
separation (the act of dividing or disconnecting)
transformation; translation (the act of changing in form or shape or appearance)
transformation ((genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA)
filling (the act of filling something)
hardening (the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact))
damage; harm; hurt; scathe (the act of damaging something or someone)
